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Child abuse strike force arrests 74-year-old man on NSW south coast

A 74-year-old man has been arrested in NSW by a strike force investigating allegations of historical, serious sexual abuse at a western Sydney boys’ home.

Formed in late 2016, Strike Force Eckersley was formed by the Nepean Police Area Command to investigate a series of complaints referred by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The strike force’s inquiries centre on allegations of child sexual assaults that occurred at the Daruk Training School at Berkshire Park, near Windsor, between 1965 and 1985.

Detectives travelled to a property on the NSW south coast, to make the strike force’s third arrest in as many months.

The former youth officer, now 74-years-old, was taken to Nowra Police Station.